Organizations that develop and operate applications for medical practices, commonly referred to as electronic medical record systems, must meet the following requirements to integrate with the ministry's health information exchange systems:
Electronic medical record systems (EMRs) must be hosted by an application service provider (ASP). EMRs not hosted by an ASP will not be permitted to connect to the ministry's health information exchange systems. An ASP provides network-based access to software services and involves:
The Privacy and Security Conformance Standards (PDF, 649KB) includes the complete data hosting requirements needed to fully protect patient privacy and confidentiality, and provide high quality service delivery. The following are examples of the requirements the application service provider must include:
The application service provider solution must acquire and provide software service delivery over a dedicated TELUS circuit between the electronic medical record's data centre and the provincial extranet, which is an aggregation and access point into British Columbia's dedicated health sector network.
Review the latest release of the conformance standards.